Plans to obsolete register_chrdev()?

[Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

In Linux 2.6, character device driver developers are supposed to use 
alloc_chrdev_region() and cdev_add() instead of register_chrdev(). See 
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch03.pdf or http://lwn.net/Articles/126808/ .

However, in 2.6.16, there are still *very few* uses of cdev_add(). 
Compare http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=cdev_add to 
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=register_chrdev .

Are there plans to officially obsolete register_chrdev() (in particular 
through Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt)?

Unless register_chrdev() is supposed to stay, I'll be glad to 
participate in converting character driver code. In particular, would 
updateds to drivers/chars/mem.c file be welcome?

Cheers,

   Michael.

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